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A watertight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow water. By admitting water, the camel or camels may be sunk and attached beneath or at the sides of a vessel, and when the water is pumped out the vessel is lifted. Camel bird (Zoöl.), the ost…

A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids. [Shak. ] Fill the cup and fill can, Have a rouse before the morn. Tennyson.

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." Boyle.

A small can or drinking vessel.

A piece of wood laid upon athe deck of a vessel to support the bulkneads. Cant frames, Cant timbers (Naut.), timber at the two ends of a ship, rising obliquely from the keel.

A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink. [Written also cantine..]

capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. In the capacious recesses of his mind. Bancroft.

The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc.

A vessel formerly used by the Dutch, privateer. Wright.

ry slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To upset or overturn, as a vessel or other body. But what if carrying sail capsize the boat Byron.

y. -- Glisson's capsule, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.

By courtesy, an officer actually commanding a vessel, although not having the rank of captain.

r getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel, or a criminal. Even with regard to captures made at sea. Bluckstone.

A light vessel or proa used by the people of Borneo, etc., and by the Dutch in the East Indies.

A name given to several kinds of vessels.

To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel.

The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods, merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. E. Everett.

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.